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Record Nr.

UNINA9910213827403321

Titolo

The center will hold : critical perspectives on writing center scholarship / / edited by Michael A. Pemberton, Joyce Kinkead

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Logan, : Utah State University Press, 2003

ISBN

9786613267078

9781283267076

1283267071

9780874214840

087421484X

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (232 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

PembertonMichael A

KinkeadJoyce A. <1954->

Disciplina

808/.042/0711

Soggetti

English language - Rhetoric - Study and teaching

Report writing - Study and teaching (Higher)

Interdisciplinary approach in education

Writing centers

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [197]-210) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction : tracing the growth of a scholarly community / Michael A. Pemberton and Joyce Kinkead -- The writing lab newsletter as history : tracing the growth of a scholarly community / Michael A. Pemberton -- In the spirit of service : making writing center research a "featured character" / Nancy M. Grimm -- Writing center assessment : searching for the "proof" of our effectiveness / Neal Lerner -- Separation, initiation and return : tutor training manuals and writing center lore / Harvey Kail -- Power and authority in peer tutoring / Peter Carino -- Breathing lessons, or Collaboration is / Michele Eodice -- (Re) shaping the profession : graduate courses in writing center theory, practice, and administration / Rebecca Jackson, Carrie Leverenz, Joe Law -- Administration across the curriculum : or Practicing what we preach / Josephine A. Koster -- An ideal writing center : re-imagining space and design / Leslie Hadfield ... [et al.] -- Mentoring in electronic spaces : using resources to sustain relationships / James A. Inman and Donna



M. Sewell.

Sommario/riassunto

In The Center Will Hold, Pemberton and Kinkead have compiled a  major volume of essays on the signal issues of scholarship that have  established the writing center field and that the field must  successfully address in the coming decade. The new century opens with  new institutional, demographic, and financial challenges, and writing  centers, in order to hold and extend their contribution to research,  teaching, and service, must continuously engage those challenges.Appropriately, the editors offer the work of Muriel Harris as a key  pivot point in the emergence of w